Getting Started

Install the theme

Install the theme Crust is a Shopify theme you add to your store and customize in the theme editor. It arrives as a finished design: colors, fonts, homepage layout, and sample content are already arranged, so you start from a complete look rather than a blank page. Add the theme 1. From your admin, go to Online Store > Themes > Add themes > Visit Theme Store, and find Crust. 2. On the listing, click Try theme. This adds Crust to your store under Online Store > Themes, in the theme library, as an unpublished copy. 3. To keep it, find it in the theme library and click Buy. Adding a theme does not change your store. Your products, collections, menus, pages, and blog posts live in your admin and stay as they are. The theme only controls how they are shown. Customize and publish 1. In Online Store > Themes, find the theme copy in your library and click Customize to open the theme editor. 2. Work through each page and swap the placeholder content for your own. For how pages are built, see Sections, blocks, and groups. 3. Set the global look under Theme settings at the bottom of the editor sidebar: Colors for the color schemes, Typography for the fonts, Logo and Favicon for your brand marks. 4. When it is ready, return to Online Store > Themes and Publish the copy to make it live for shoppers. Working on an unpublished copy means you can build the whole store and preview it without changing what live shoppers see. Replace the demo content The photos in the Theme Store preview are licensed for that preview and are not included with the theme, so you start with placeholder images. Replace them with your own: - Open each section or block in the editor and use its image picker to add your photography. - Point the product and collection sections at your real products and collections from their pickers. - Rewrite the placeholder headings and text for your store. Use your own product and brand photography throughout. See Common section settings for how a section's color scheme, spacing, and layout apply once your content is in. Tips - The theme sets your color schemes for you. Change your brand colors once under Colors in Theme settings and the change carries across every section that uses that scheme. - Customizations do not carry between themes. If you install a new version later, you set it up fresh, so finish one before you move on. - Nothing in the starting design is fixed. Every section, color, font, and piece of copy stays editable, so treat it as a foundation rather than a template you have to keep.

Theme editor basics

Theme editor basics The theme editor is where you build and arrange every page in the theme. You add sections, fill them with blocks, set their options in the sidebar, and watch the result in the preview beside it. This article covers the editor mechanics. For how sections, blocks, and groups fit together, see Sections, blocks, and groups. For the settings that repeat across sections, see Common section settings. Open the editor 1. In your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes. 2. Find your theme in the list. 3. Click Customize. The editor opens with the sidebar on the left, the live preview in the middle, and the top bar across the top. Move around the editor The sidebar lists the sections on the current page, with each section's blocks nested under it. This is the block list. Click a section or a block to select it and open its settings on the right. The top bar switches what you are editing: - The page picker (the dropdown in the center of the top bar) changes which page you preview and edit. Switch between the home page, a product page, a collection page, and the rest. - The device toggle previews desktop or mobile. - Save stores your changes. The editor does not save on its own, so save before you leave. Add a section 1. In the sidebar, click Add section. 2. Pick a section from the list. The theme groups them under headings such as Banners, Storytelling, and Layout. 3. The section is added to the page and selected, so its settings open on the right. A new section lands at the bottom of the page. Drag it up the block list to move it. Reorder, hide, and remove a section - Reorder: in the block list, drag a section by its handle to a new position. The preview updates as you drop it. - Hide: click the eye icon next to a section to hide it from your live store without deleting it. Click it again to show it. A hidden section stays in the block list, dimmed. - Remove: select the section, then click Remove section. This deletes it from the page. Add a block to a section 1. In the block list, select the section you want to add to. 2. Click Add block under that section. 3. Pick a block from the list. It is added inside the section and selected. Blocks reorder, hide, and remove the same way sections do: drag to reorder, click the eye icon to hide, and use Remove block to delete. To move a block into a group, drag it onto the group in the block list. The header and footer The Header and Footer show at the top and bottom of every page, so you edit them once and the change applies everywhere. They appear in the block list on every page. Select Header or Footer to open its sections and blocks. Theme settings Theme settings are store-wide options that apply across every page, such as Colors, Typography, Animations, Logo, Buttons, and Product cards. Open them from the Theme settings icon at the bottom of the sidebar. A color scheme or font you change here updates every section that uses it.

Languages, markets, and translations

Languages, markets, and translations Selling in more than one language or country is a Shopify feature. You set it up in the Shopify admin, and the theme shows the result: translated content, a language selector, and a country selector. This article points you to each piece. Add a language In the Shopify admin, go to Settings, then Languages. Add the language you want and publish it. Your store now has more than one published language, and the theme's language selector appears so shoppers can switch. Until a second language is published, the selector stays hidden, which is expected. The language selector shows in the top bar and the footer. Each of those articles covers turning it on and placing it. Translate your content Shopify's free Translate & Adapt app translates your store. Install it from the Shopify App Store, then translate: - Your products, collections, pages, blog posts, and navigation. - the theme's own text (button labels, form prompts, and other theme wording) under the app's Theme section. These strings live in the theme's language files, and Translate & Adapt edits them for you, so you do not touch code. Machine translation gives you a starting point in the app; review and refine the wording before you rely on it. Sell in more than one country To sell across countries with local currencies or prices, use Shopify Markets (Settings, then Markets). A market can cover one country or a group of them. When a market offers more than one country, the theme's country selector appears next to the language selector, so a shopper can pick their country and see local pricing. Right-to-left languages The theme supports right-to-left languages (such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian): the whole layout mirrors when the active language is right-to-left. This runs off Enable RTL (right-to-left) support in the RTL support panel under Theme settings, which is on by default. Turn it off only if you have no right-to-left language and the mirrored direction controls in the editor get in your way. See Logo, social, and regional settings. Tips - The selectors are driven by your Shopify setup, not by a theme setting. If a selector does not appear, check that you have a second published language (for the language selector) or a market with more than one country (for the country selector). - Translate the theme's theme text as well as your products. A half-translated page (translated products, English buttons) reads as unfinished to a shopper.

Update the theme to a new version

Update the theme to a new version When a new version of the theme comes out, you do not edit your current theme in place. You install the new version as a separate theme, set it up to match your live store, then publish it once it looks right. Your live store stays untouched while you work. A theme update is not automatic. Your live theme stays on its current version until you choose to move. Plan an update for a quiet trading period so you have time to check everything before it goes live. Before you start - Note which version of the theme your store runs now, and which version you are moving to. - If you (or an agency) edited the theme code by hand, those edits do not carry over to a new version. List them first so you can reapply them after the update. - Keep your current live theme in place until the new one is published. It is your fallback. Update steps The flow below follows Shopify's standard theme update process. 1. Get the new version of the theme. How you receive it depends on how the update reaches you (see the note at the end). 2. In your Shopify admin, go to Online Store then Themes. 3. Add the new version to your theme library so it sits alongside your live theme, without publishing it. 4. Open the new version in the theme editor and set it up to match your live store: sections, blocks, content, and theme settings. 5. Preview the new version end to end. Check the home page, a collection, a product page, cart, and checkout entry on both desktop and mobile. 6. When the new version looks right, publish it. Your old theme moves out of the live slot but stays in your library. Carrying your settings across Theme settings and page content do not move between two separate themes on their own. You have two ways to bring them across. - Copy settings by hand. Open both themes in two browser tabs and reapply your choices in the new version: colors, typography, sections, blocks, and their content. This is slower, but you see every setting and can drop anything you no longer want. - Copy the settings file. Shopify themes store editor settings in a settings file inside the theme code. You can copy that file from your old theme into the new one. This carries settings in bulk, but only do it when both themes are the same major version of the theme. Across a large version jump, settings can shift between versions and a bulk copy can break the new theme. When unsure, copy by hand. Either way, set this up on the unpublished copy and check it before you publish. After you publish - Walk through the live store once more: home, a collection, a product, search, cart. - Reapply any hand-edited code changes you listed earlier. A new version replaces theme code, so those edits are gone until you add them back. - Keep the previous theme in your library for a week or two. If something is wrong, you can republish it in one click while you sort out the new version. Tips - Never edit the live theme to update it. Always work on a separate, unpublished copy so customers never see a half-finished change. - App embeds and third-party code added through other apps are tied to your store, not the theme, so most carry over. Still check anything app-driven (reviews, upsells, custom blocks) after publishing. - If the update is large, write down your key settings (brand colors, fonts, header and footer layout) before you start. It makes rebuilding by hand faster and gives you a reference if a bulk copy goes wrong. See Install the theme for which panels hold those settings.

Welcome to Crust

Welcome to Crust Crust is a premium Shopify theme for food and pantry stores: producers, grocers, delis, bakeries, and anyone selling things people eat. It arrives as a finished storefront, with the sections, colors, and type already arranged, and gives you an editor to reshape all of it. This article orients you: what you get, how a store is built with it, and where to find the rest of the help center. What you get Crust ships as one complete design: colors, fonts, homepage layout, and sample content, plus prebuilt templates for your product, collection, blog, about, contact, and FAQ pages. You use it as your foundation, then swap in your own products, images, and copy. See Install the theme for how to add it to your store. It also ships six alternate product templates, each arranged for a different kind of catalog: bread and bakery, cured and cheese, honey and preserves, oils and vinegars, pantry and grains, and sweets and chocolate. Assign whichever one fits a product, or stay on the default. See Product page layout and blocks. How a store is built You build pages from sections, and most sections hold blocks that you add and arrange in the theme editor. The theme styles all of it from one set of colors and type, so a page you assemble yourself looks like the rest of the store. Store-wide options (colors, fonts, logo, cart, and more) live under Theme settings, and apply to every page at once. For how sections, blocks, and groups fit together, read Sections, blocks, and groups. For the controls that repeat across most sections (color, spacing, layout, visibility), read Common section settings. For a tour of the editor and the Theme settings panels, read Theme editor basics. How this help center is organized The help center is grouped so you can find help for the task in front of you: - Getting started: orientation articles like this one, installing the theme, and updating to a new version. - Page building: how sections, blocks, and groups work, and the common settings they share. - Theme settings: one article per store-wide panel, covering every control in it. - Sections: how to add and configure each section you can drop onto a page. - Header and footer: the navigation, top bar, and footer that show on every page. - Product pages, Collections and search, Cart, Blog and pages: the storefront areas your shoppers move through. - Developers: custom Liquid, the theme's JavaScript events, and working on the theme with an AI assistant. - Troubleshooting: fixes for common snags.